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Re:Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves E... by bostik on Saturday April 14, 2018 @03:38AM (#16836346)
> A big part of software engineering is to engineer the logic to get the correct result as fast as possible.*

Engineering is all about working within a set of constraints. Things that are easier and/or cheaper to manufacture, have clearly been engineered that way.

It can't be a coincidence that we consider CPU time and memory footprint "costs".

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Re:Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves E... by skookumchuck on Saturday April 14, 2018 @04:18AM (#16836455)
We consider them costs because they are. If you can execute code on your server farm 1% faster, you can save millions of dollars in server costs. Hence software engineers who work on server farm code tend to get paid very well.
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